Former residence of Chen Chunlan

Former residence of Chen Chunlan

Chen Chunlan's former residence is located in tongxingli, Shangyu City, Zhejiang Province.

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Chen Chunlan's former residence is located in tongxingli, Shangyu City, Zhejiang Province.

Push open the door of tongxingli, the wooden door gives out a clucking sound, like an old man's severe cough. Eighty nine years ago, Chen Chunlan, the owner of the compound, had a relapse of cough. Lying on a cane chair beside the wooden door, he had a cough like this. At that time, tongxingli was not built long ago. Chen Chunlan is only occasionally cold. Now tongxingli is old and dilapidated, and Chen Chunlan is dead. Time is like an arrow, the vicissitudes of life, people sigh, people sigh.

Tongxingli is located in the south of Hengshan. Hengshan is a small mountain, a low mountain. It looks unimportant. It is even a bit lazy. Lying on the Yubei plain like this, it gives people a feeling of indifference and inaction. Later, a good person surnamed Chen was unwilling to be ignored, so he made up a story, saying that Hengshan is a Wolong, but now he is just sleeping, and once he wakes up in the future, he will prosper. As soon as we saw the shape of the mountain, it really looked like a Wolong, so we believed it and settled down beside the dragon.

Tongxingli is built beside the dragon. If Hengshan is really a crouching dragon, it should be the leading part. This is Chen Chunlan's careful choice, or accidental coincidence, has no way to check. Besides, this legend may be made up by modern people. Whether Chen Chunlan heard of this legend 100 years ago is unknown.

But tongxingli is still relatively intact, which is a fact. It has been more than 100 years since the house was built. There were countless wars, natural disasters and man-made disasters. It's not easy to stand at the foot of Hengshan now.

Tongxing is very big. If you measure it with your feet, it will take at least 10 minutes to walk around. It took less than 13 seconds for Liu Xiang to hurdle 110 meters in Lausanne, Switzerland, which shows the size of the room.

Since tongxingli is a big city, it often brings troubles for no reason after it is built. This is probably called "big trees attract wind". If we don't talk about the cultural revolution before, the red guards have already taken aim at it. Because the house was so big that it couldn't be demolished at once. Moreover, it was troublesome to demolish it. Some people suggested that the big words on the lintel should be knocked off first. So they found ladders and hammers from the farmers and smashed them ping-pong. The first one to be smashed is the four words on the lintel of the stone gate of the big wall door: "Ziqi comes from the East." The characters are very big and powerful. They are extremely popular. Decades have passed since the "Cultural Revolution". The traces of these four characters can be clearly seen. When they smashed the front door and the inner door, there were words on the inner door, so they smashed them one by one, until they finished, the red guards patted the dust on their hands and said, "go.".

Now, let's go into Tongxing and have a look. There are three rooms in tongxingli, each with five rooms on both sides. The entrance is a long patio, because the wall is too high, and the distance between the wall and the head is not far, so it gives people a sense of narrow and deep.

After more than 100 years of wind and rain and man-made damage, tongxingli is still well preserved. The collapse of some local walls, the decay of some beams, the breakage of some tiles, including the defects of some doors and windows, do not affect the overall structure of this century old house. It also stands at the foot of Hengshan. It seems that Chen Chunlan, the stubborn and unyielding owner of the house, is making a final remark on his life.

As the last destination in his life, Chen Chunlan attaches great importance to the construction of this house. All the site selection, drawings and construction process are examined, approved, participated and managed by him. His nephew Chen yizhai, who is the deputy manager of Yongfeng bank, acts as an assistant. During the whole three years, the old man kept walking around the construction site with crutches. He watched the bricks build up from the ground, the beams stand up in the air, and the houses stand up slowly. The old man's shriveled mouth, which seemed to be closed forever, began to open.

But after the house was built, Chen Chunlan began to regret it. Why? Funny to say, he thought the house was too big. It's even a bit extravagant. Really? He is not an official. The officials need high walls and deep courtyards to show their dignity. He is not a scholar either. He wants to make the house full of elegance. He is just a businessman. He is the most practical. Although he has some money in his pocket, is it necessary to build such a powerful gatehouse and such a strong wall? Of course, there are also deep gardens and many rockeries.

One morning in the autumn of 1894, shortly after the completion of tongxingli, Chen Chunlan, who was used to getting up early, wore a small cap with claw skin, a long bamboo shirt, and crutches. He started in a courtyard in the middle of the courtyard. The courtyard was as big as a basketball court, surrounded by white walls and grey tiles, and all the stones were made of large bluestone slabs It was transported by inland river, and then it was transported by rolling wood paved by hand, which was a lot of trouble.

Chen Chunlan recalled the footprints of her life when she walked alone in the middle of the patio. What a rough, miserable and incredible footprint it was. The place where he stood was in the middle of the courtyard of tongxingli, where he was born. Because of the thinness of the thatch, the incomplete sky can be seen in some places. His mother told him that it was raining on the day he was born. It rained so heavily that if a neighbor hadn't taken off his coat and covered him, he might have been killed by the rain.

When Chen Chunlan was a little older, he began to collect dog excrement in the village. He has a nickname, called "dog shit Wei", which was taken at that time. Of course, he also wants to study in the private school in the village nunnery, but for Chen Chunlan, who can't even fill his belly, it can only be a dream in his dream.

When Chen Chunlan was 19 years old, he began to roam Shanghai beach, because he couldn't stay at home any longer. Every year there was flood and famine. If he stayed in this shabby hut, he would either be drowned or starved to death. It's better to go out and make a living than to die. No one can accurately describe how Chen Chunlan found a way to live in Shanghai beach at that time. After all, time is too long, and there are too many versions of the legend. So that we can't tell which is true and which is false. But one thing is true, that is, when Chen Chunlan, who has been away from home for a long time, suddenly came back from Shanghai one day, demolished the old thatched cottage where he was born and raised, and built this famous mansion on the original site, everyone was relieved from surprise: Oh, Chen Chunlan, that skinny little trick of picking up dog excrement in the villages and alleys, has really come true now. There is a folk song as evidence: "Shanxi Kang family, Ningbo Fang family, Cixi Sheng family, less than Hengshan Chen family." This Chen family naturally belongs to Chen Chunlan.

Chen Chunlan returned home from Shanghai at the age of 58. Leave all the property to nephews. He lived in Tongxing of Hengshan and carried out his dream action.

Yeah, it's time to act, because he's old. At that time, the young man who was stupefied and sonorous had become an old man who was faltering in the blink of an eye. Although Hengshan is still the same, the sky is the same, but he has changed. When he stood in front of the big wall gate of tongxingli with a crutch and looked at the distant mountain and near water, the wind from Hengshan had blown his sparse and gray beard. And the heavy bellows of breathing.

In fact, when Chen Chunlan came back from Shanghai, he was already carrying out his dream action. He was a man who wanted to repay his kindness. He often said: if it had not been for a rotten sweet potato from a passer-by, he would have starved to death by the roadside. If it had not been for the ragged clothes of a neighbor. He had already been killed by the cold rain when he was born. Therefore, he wants to repay not only those who are kind to him, but also all those who can do it.

He did, and the many bridges, many pavilions, many roads made of bluestone, which he funded to build, can testify. Yokoyama can also testify. Because there are many new tombs on the mountain, many coffins of the dead in the new tombs are provided by him. Of course, tongxingli can testify. Because it has witnessed how this wealthy businessman, in the twilight of his life, staggers through the villages with crutches, spreading wealth and comforting hardship. Including the charity of serving a bowl of hot porridge for hungry passers-by in front of the never closed porridge stall by the door of tongxingli.

As a result, Chen Chunlan unconsciously became a philanthropist. He became a philanthropist from a wealthy businessman and industrialist. It can be seen that Chen Chunlan is not tired of talking about it. However, if someone thinks that Chen Chunlan is satisfied with this, then it is a big mistake. Because Chen Chunlan doesn't want to give up, he still has a bigger dream in his heart. He wants to realize it. A dream that haunted him all his life. This dream is to run a school.

To be exact, Chen Chunlan had previously run a school called Chunhui school, which was located in Hengshan, the same place where he lived

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